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Elaborated Action of the Human Primosome Review Elaborated Action of the Human Primosome Andrey G. Baranovskiy and Tahir H. Tahirov * Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases, Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198, USA; [email protected] * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.: +1-402-559-7607 Academic Editor: Eishi Noguchi Received: 1 December 2016; Accepted: 4 February 2017; Published: 8 February 2017 Abstract: The human primosome is a 340-kilodalton complex of primase (DNA-dependent RNA polymerase) and DNA polymerase α, which initiates genome replication by synthesizing chimeric RNA-DNA primers for DNA polymerases δ and ε. Accumulated biochemical and structural data reveal the complex mechanism of concerted primer synthesis by two catalytic centers. First, primase generates an RNA primer through three steps: initiation, consisting of dinucleotide synthesis from two nucleotide triphosphates; elongation, resulting in dinucleotide extension; and termination, owing to primase inhibition by a mature 9-mer primer. Then Polα, which works equally well on DNA:RNA and DNA:DNA double helices, intramolecularly catches the template primed by a 9- mer RNA and extends the primer with dNTPs. All primosome transactions are highly coordinated by autoregulation through the alternating activation/inhibition of the catalytic centers. This coordination is mediated by the small C-terminal domain of the primase accessory subunit, which forms a tight complex with the template:primer, shuttles between the primase and DNA polymerase active sites, and determines their access to the substrate. Keywords: DNA replication; human; primosome; primase; DNA polymerase α; protein-DNA interaction; RNA synthesis; initiation; termination; steric hindrance 1. Introduction In all eukaryotic organisms, genome replication depends on activity of the primosome, a four- subunit complex of DNA primase and DNA polymerase α (Polα) [1]. The primosome initiates synthesis of both the leading and lagging strands by making chimeric RNA-DNA primers, which are required for the loading of replication factor C (RFC), proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), and replicative DNA polymerases δ and ε [2,3]. At each origin, the primosome is involved only once for leading strand initiation, while it starts every Okazaki fragment on the discontinuously synthesized lagging strand. Given the sizes of Okazaki fragments (165-bp) and chimeric primers (30–35 nucleotides), the primosome synthesizes up to 20% of the lagging strand and, therefore, approximately 10% of the genome [4,5]. During maturation of the Okazaki fragments, both the RNA and a significant portion of the DNA track of a chimeric primer are being deleted [6]. As a result, DNA synthesized by Polα comprises approximately 1.5% of the mature genome [7]. These regions are mutation hotspots because Polα has relatively low fidelity due to the absence of proofreading activity. Thus, despite low retention of Polα-synthesized DNA tracks in the mature genome, the primosome has a large impact on genome stability and evolution. Recently, it has been shown that the primosome is responsible for generation of RNA-DNA fragments in the cytosol and that it regulates the activation of type I interferons [8]. The primosome synthesizes chimeric primers in a highly coordinated fashion. RNA primer synthesis by primase involves three steps: initiation, elongation, and termination [9,10]. During the initiation step, primase binds the DNA template and two cognate rNTPs (one at the initiation site and Genes 2017, 8, 62; doi: 10.3390/genes8020062 www.mdpi.com/journal/genes Genes 2017, 8, 62 2 of 16 the other at the elongation [catalytic] site) and catalyzes the formation of a dinucleotide [11,12]. Extension of the RNA is restricted due to the intrinsic property of primase to terminate synthesis at a strictly defined point [13]. Then Polα intramolecularly captures the mature RNA primer for subsequent extension by dNTPs [11,14,15]. Recent breakthroughs in structural studies of the human primosome [13] and its components [16–22] (Table 1) allow for accurate modeling of the primosome conformations during all stages of chimeric primer synthesis. Table 1. List of the high-resolution structures of the human primosome and its domains. PDB Resolution, Structural Protein Construct Cofactors Deposition Date Ref. ID (Å) Metals 3L9Q 1.7 p58(272–464) 4Fe-4S 5 January 2010 [21] 3Q36 2.5 p58(266–457) 4Fe-4S 21 December 2010 [22] 4BPU 2.7 p49 a/p58(1–253) Zn 28 May 2013 [16] 4BPW 3.0 p49 a/p58(1–253) Zn UTP, Mg 28 May 2013 [16] p49 a/p58(19–253) b/ 4BPX 3.4 Zn 28 May 2013 [16] p180(1445–1462) 4LIK 1.7 p49(1–390) c Zn 2 July 2013 [23] 4LIL 2.6 p49(1–390) c Zn UTP, Mn 2 July 2013 [23] 4MHQ 2.2 p49 Zn 30 August 2013 DNA:RNA, 4QCL 2.2 p180(335–1257) d Zn 12 May 2014 [17] dCTP, Mg DNA:RNA, 4Q5V 2.52 p180(335–1257) d 17 April 2014 [17] aphidicolin 4RR2 2.65 p49/p58 Zn, 4Fe-4S 5 November 2014 [18] 4Y97 2.51 p180(1265–1444)/p70 Zn 17 February 2015 [19] 5DQO 2.3 p58(272–464) e 4Fe-4S 15 September 2015 5EXR 3.6 p49/p58/p180 d/p70 Zn, 4Fe-4S 24 November 2015 [13] DNA:RNA, 5F0Q 2.2 p58(266–456) 4Fe-4S 28 November 2015 [13] Mg DNA:RNA, 5F0S 3.0 p58(266–456) 4Fe-4S 28 November 2015 [13] Mn 5IUD 3.3 p180(338–1255) DNA:DNA 17 March 2016 [20] a Mutations Lys-72-Ala and Met-73-Ala; b N-terminus of p58 is fused to the primase-binding peptide of p180 via a 15 amino acid linker; c Residues 360–379 and 409–420 are deleted; d Mutation Val-516- Ala; e Mutation Tyr-347-Phe. 2. Organization of the Human Primosome Human Polα belongs to the B family of DNA Pols and is comprised of a 166-kDa catalytic subunit (p180) and a 66-kDa accessory subunit (p70). The catalytic domain of p180 (p180core) possesses DNA-polymerizing activity but has no proofreading exonuclease activity, in contrast to other replicative DNA Pols, δ and ε. The C-terminal domain of p180 (p180C) is flexibly connected to a catalytic core by a 15-residue-long linker, and it contains two conserved zinc-binding modules, Zn1 and Zn2 (Figure 1), where each zinc is coordinated by four cysteines [19,24]. Zn2 and the helical region between the two zinc-binding modules provide the extended interaction interface (~4000 Å2) with p70, while the short peptide (1447–1455) mediates the interaction between Polα and primase [13,19]. The N-terminus of p180 is predicted to be poorly folded and has no conserved motifs required for primosome function. The structural information for this region is limited to a small peptide in the catalytic subunit of yeast Polα (residues 140–147) that mediates interaction with the replisome [25]. The accessory B subunit (p70; also known as p68) consists of a globular N-terminal domain (NTD or p70N), a catalytically dead phosphodiesterase domain (PDE), and an oligonucleotide/oligosaccharide- binding (OB) domain. The OB domain is embedded into the PDE domain, representing the common feature of B-family DNA Pols [19,26]. The globular NTD is attached to the PDE via a long flexible linker and participates in interactions with other DNA replication proteins [19,27,28]. Genes 2017, 8, 62 3 of 16 Figure 1. Schematic representation of the domain organization in the human primosome. The borders of the regions participating in intersubunit interactions are designated by dotted lines. Positions of the conserved cysteines coordinating zinc or [4Fe-4S] cluster are indicated by orange lines. The linkers responsible for flexible connections between domains are colored gray. Human primase consists of a 50-kda catalytic subunit (p49; also known as p48, PRIM1, Pri1, and PriS) and a 59-kDa regulatory subunit (p58; also known as PRIM2, Pri2, and PriL) (Figure 1). Eukaryotic and archaeal primases have a similar structural organization, which indicates a common evolutionary ancestor [29]. In contrast to prokaryotic primases, the zinc-binding motif of eukaryotic/archaeal primases is integrated into the “prim” fold of the catalytic subunit and probably plays only a structural role [16,18,30–32]. p58 has two distinct domains: the N-terminal domain (p58N) with a mixed α/β-fold and the all-helical C-terminal domain (p58C), connected by an 18-residue linker (253–270) [18]. Similar to yeast primase [33], four cysteines of p58C coordinate an iron-sulfur cluster ([4Fe-4S]) which is buried inside of the domain and is important for p58C folding [21,22,34,35]. There was one report claiming that all four Saccharomyces cerevisiae B-family DNA polymerases coordinate the [4Fe-4S] cluster at the second cysteine-rich module (referred to here as Zn2) of the C- terminal domain of the catalytic subunits (CTD, analog of p180C) [36]. However, the provided experimental evidence was uncertain for Polα. For example, Polα CTD purified under anaerobic conditions contained only 0.1 mol non-heme iron and acid-labile sulfide per mol CTD, while CTDs of other B-family DNA polymerases (δ, ε, and ζ) contained 2.0 to 2.6 Fe and S per monomer. Coordination of the [4Fe-4S] cluster by Polα CTD has not been confirmed in subsequent studies where high-purity stoichiometric Polα complexes have been obtained [37,38]. Structural studies of yeast and human Polα do not support the presence of an iron-sulfur cluster in Polα CTD; only two zinc ions coordinated by Zn1 and Zn2 modules were seen [13,19,39]. Zn2 is important for interaction between Polα subunits and snugly fits the docking site on the OB domain. Coordination of an [4Fe- 4S] cluster by the Zn2 module would certainly change its shape and disrupt the interaction between the catalytic and B subunits.
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